Friday, November 9, 2018

Norwegian band Taake is touring Italy and will play in Rome on the 7th of November, the 8th in Bari, the 9th in Bologna and the 10th in Vercelli. They already played on the 19th of October in Milan.

This black metal band time after time became famous for many terrible actions¹: in Germany, in 2007, their singer Hoest (mastermind of the project) went on the stage with a svastika painted on his chest. Hoest answered to the scandal that followed saying that: "we are not nazis, it was a provocation" followed by "that subhuman" of the organizer "could make a blowjob to a muslim" since he interrupted the gig.
More recently Hoest went on the stage of various gigs with a shirt showing a sign of ban upon the islamic moon and star.

Orkan, a song from 2011², contains a message that tells to Mohamed and all the muslims to go to hell. In the same song they speak about christianity as a dishonour, something that would have weakened "our pagan people", following the genre cliché. This ridicolous super partes attitude get betrayed after a few seconds, since Hoest says that the European people are a compact block of sleeping pagans that has to free itself of the christianity just to prepare a defence against invasion "for it smoulders in after wartimes" coming from another people, the oriental and muslim people. The West has to "sharp again the axes" because the winter sun rises from the West for the "pigs that burn our flag": "Iron against iron, Norway wake up soon".

That feeling when "non-nazis" wave the Norway flag while promoting the ethnic war.

Since when it rains, it pours, in 2015 the members of Young and in the Way, a band in tour with Taake, got accused by three people of sexual assault³ and got banned by various festivals. One of the victims wrote to Hoest asking him to reconsider their collaboration with the rapists during the tour⁴. His answer was: "We don't care, keep this drama off the internet". YaitW disbanded shortly after since they cannot manage the scandal.

Behind the Italian tour, other than Nighttime Production, we have a local label: Nihil Production, always on the first line organizing NSBM events. It promoted different editions of the "Black winter fest" (that will be in Parma again on the 1st of December) as well as the "Hammer of the Gods", a festival that hosted various clearly fascist or greyzone bands, like Graveland, Nokturnal Mortum, Satanic Warmaster and Ad Hominem.

We, black metal listeners, want the gigs and the places of our city to not welcome the racist, sexist and fascist scum. We want, on the contrary, this scum to not be able to find spaces and the musical scene to be welcoming to any ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.
Places like Traffic in Rome, Alchemica in Bologna, Demodé in Bari and Officine Sonore in Vercelli, have to take on their responsibility to know which kind of bands and people are hosting.
In the same way the supporting bands like Enisum, Selvans, Dewfall and Kyterion won't be able to difend themselves under the flag of the "music is just music" slogan. If you play with mysoginist, racist and nazis people, you are collaborating with them.

You know what's the funnies thing here? Many punk bands (not only sex pistols, but also a lot of japanese hardcore bands for example) has used swastikas for shocking the people around. So antifas has pissed again

thanks for the article! Fascism is against diversity and freedom, and we are all diverse, so... fuck them! There is no neutrality, just as music is not only music. Antifascist action in its diversity of tactics is needed.

Fascism and misanthropy are two different things, although both are best explained under a system that brings out the worst in us. In the light of the available data, losing the faith in human nature is easy; but this very thing is one of the factors that perpetuate the system. If you're true and pure misanthropes I guess being coherent is to end up your lives right now. I would say: wait, redirect your hatred and some old bullshit... you will still be able to listen to BM and be dark, just find some more constructive ways. You are not fucking alone in this world and you're going to live once! Let's don't give up on each other!

Guys, for fuck sakes, get your head out of your ass!Listen, I'm an anti-fascist myself and a militant far-leftist, but this black metal witchhunt has got to end. Hoest was a dumbass by wearing the Swastika and saying that bullshit, but he has mentioned being against nazism and racism lots of times. God fucking dammit! Truly fascist bands don't give a fuck at being labelled nazi - in fact, they support it, so Taake IS NOT a nazi band. I don't like them musically but Hoest doesn't deserve this.

About the lyrics - FOR FUCKS SAKES! It's BLACK METAL we're talking about here, dudes! It was anti-religious since day one and it shall always be. Why is hating on Christianity okay but islamism not? What's the fucking difference? God dammit. Also, Taake has NEVER focused ONLY on being anti-Islam, they hate other religions equally and have expressed it in lots of their albums.

If you want to make a difference, PLEASE stop ruining even more Antifa's name by shutting down anything deemed "nazi". It's childish, it sucks and it only shows apolitical people that "antifa is against free speech".

None of the bands listed are Nazi musically. If i make a Nazi song why does that make me Nazi, story is a story. Also since when is opposing religion been Nazi. You are same as all other mainstream witch hunts, like feminists and so on. Everyone has the right to perform their art and have their opinion whether you like it or not. If people want to be Nazis and sing about it they have the right to do so, if you dont like it ignore it.

satanic Warmaster has some songs with Nazi imagery, he isnt Nazi or his music in general.

Nokturnal Mortum mainly sing about their own land and culture and how to protect it from other cultures, nothing Nazi about that.

Graveland, lead singer had some Nazi like views but bands music has got nothing to do with Nazis.

Black Metal was always about expressing yourself no matter how extreme it was to like minded people.

Its simple, if you dont like something and it bothers you, ignore it and enjoy things that you actually like instead of trying to ban everything that you find wrong. Maybe what you stand for is wrong. Globalization, race mixing, destruction of traditional European cultures.

People will label anything Nazi these days, deluded just like mainstream you claim to despise. Its like to soccer moms deciding what to go and ban over a coffee cause it harms someone, grow some fucking balls and stop fighting the natural way of existence. fact is we are not all the same and we dont have to like everyone, its natural way of life.

supports nazis=nazi toosupports rapist=rapist as welllooking the other way does make you a collaborator.And the growth of fascism, now, is cultural. And music is a part of someone's culture. So yeah, it's still fighting fascism.And this blog is called red and anarchist black metal... so maybe you need to ignore it, if you don't like it

"supports rapist=rapist as well"Words have meaning. To be a rapist, you have to rape. This is like saying if you support a christian, you are a follower of christ. I could just as easily declare that everyone who has read this page is Antifa because they are "supporting" a leftist blog. One look at the comments section disproves that.

Besides your views are just as facist as Nazi views are, just on the other side. On the other hand im neutral, im not scared of hearing anyone's believes and opinions, i dont get offended or upset about anything. To me getting ogffended or upset about some things is a choice. Modern shit society gets offended about most meaningless shit because its a trend, nothing more but another trend. Makes people think, if they join a group or something that they are important or doing something good. Dont even mention Antifa morons, just plain stupid, not to mention violent always attacking small venues of peaceful concert goers cause they cant handle that someone else has the right of an opinion even if its different to theirs. Plain idiocy simple as that.

I pee on the authority of the so-called true leftists or true black metal listeners; in fact I pee on all the authority. "Correctness" is just a social construct, but which are the values that support that "correctness"? Long live to the anonymous anarchists!

everything is interconnected, the freedom of all of us too. So we don't want to ignore those who attack our freedom because of our diverse nature. Being radical and in solidarity with others and the non-human world can be quite related to BM and to others music genres too, as BM is not the chosen one, because there is no chosen one. Chaos reigns!

i'm not impressed with bm fascists saying shit, because i've had to read it so much i just can't give a shit anymore about elitist assholes that spend their days in their basement cleaning their nazi-shithead records.But the so-called "leftists" saying it's a witchhunt? Honey, your inner fascist is showing. They are the ones that oppose the fact that some people EXIST, it's not a witchhunt, it's cleaning the fucking streets.And for the nazi assholes, don't worry, in a nazi society, you would be the first to go.

Note: the Young and In The Way claims could not be more wrong. the drummer is gay for starters, they weren't banned from festivals they stepped down, no charges were pressed, festivals actually begged them to stay on. Black Metal Supremacy, Not White Supremacy.

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Q.: Which kinds of music are featured on this blog?

A.: - (primarily) RABM or Red & Anarchist Black Metal: all kinds of black metal-related music charged with radical leftist (anarchist, libertarian socialist, eco-anarchist, etc.) political views. Some of the bands featured here may be not openly political, but all of them are RABM-friendly;

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A.: Unfortunately right we don't have an opportunity to accept donations, but we hope we'll be able to set it up soon.

Q.: What is the connection between black metal and hardcore/punk/crust?

A.: It's a well-established fact that the connection between black metal and punk scenes existed since the early days of BM (think Venom, early Bathory, early Mayhem and early Sodom on one side, and Amebix, Discharge and Axegrinder on another). Recently this mix of BM and hardcore punk got a new life in the form of blackened crust (thanks to Black Kronstadt / Iskra in first place). And don't forget about Cascadian black metal bands with their radical environmentalist ideology, often to the extent of radical eco-anarchism or "pro-nature/anti-humanity" ideas.

Q.: What's your main ideology?

A.: This blog is generally written from a position of anarchism without adjectives; however, the RABM scene is very diverse ideologically. Let us end on this, as this blog isn't quite a right place for purely political debates; if you want to learn or argue about anarchism/other ideologies, there's a lot of specialized FAQs/blogs/forums for you.

Q.: Isn't black metal supposed to be apolitical?

A.: Supposed by whom? I personally don't think so, but if you think that political awareness should have no place in "true" black metal, you can feel free to call the bands featured on here "blackened punk" or whatever you want. It should be noted, though, that a lot of these bands doesn't openly talk about politics in their lyrics, exactly because they think it wouldn't be suitable for black metal. - B.K.

Q.: Isn't RABM just an "answer" to NSBM?

A.: While RABM is definitely against NSBM and any other kind of far-right crap in metal scene, it's most emphatically a self-sufficient movement and not any kind of "answer to NSBM". Similarly, while RABM is 100% pro liberation from any kinds of religious tyranny, it isn't a movement against any particular religion (Christianity, Islam, or any other).

Q.: What's your opinion on Satanism?

A.: The so-called "Hollywood Satanism", which is often found in black metal, is, in our opinion, nothing more than inverted Christianity, so we aren't big on it. Many of us are simply atheists, pagans of all kinds, gnostics, etc. We also don't share the notion that only genuine theistic Satanists / Devil-worshippers can play "real" black metal (this would exclude such bands as Venom, Bathory, Immortal, Summoning, and many many others). Additionally, the very term "Satanism" is quite vague, and can't be narrowed down to LaVeyan Satanism (which is heavily disliked by many black metallers), or whatever else. LaVey had some good points, but in general his philosophy can be described just as "Ayn Rand with some occult tinge".

Q.: What about misanthropy and nihilism?

A.: To put it in short: we don't hate everyone and everything (and we don't think there's anyone﻿ who truly does). We just hate these traits of humanity which make true anarchist society most likely infeasible in the foreseeable future.

Q.: Collectivism or individualism?

A.: There actually is no "hard" contradiction between these two terms. Individualism is simply an outlook emphasizes the moral worth of the individual and its right not to be oppressed by the state or some social group. It doesn't contradict at all with standing up for your rights along with a group of like-minded individuals. It also worth noting that the early black metal scene didn't promote individualism that much (see "black metal circles").

Q.: Who coined the term "RABM"?

A.: Hard to say, but there's an apparent similarity to RASH ("Red & Anarchist Skinheads"). Here's the very first mention of "RABM" we could find (August 2005). The term was popularized by our last.fm group (and later - by this blog) since 2009.

Q.: Do you know the ideology of the band X? It isn't obvious if they're NSBM or not...

A.: Sorry, we don't know, do your own research. It's often hard to say anything certain about a band's views, if the members themselves aren't open about it. We also don't advice using various "lists of nazi bands" etc. as a reference, as most of them are full of bullshit. Similarly, forum posts or blog comments (especially anonymous ones) generally aren't a reliable source for anything. In one particular case, we had an anonymous comment claiming that the members of Timebomb are now playing in a fascist band called SPQR. Later it turned out that it were members of a completely other Italian band with a similar name (Timebombs). Hopefully that'd be a good example of how important fact-checking is.

Q.: I've seen some of the albums posted here in the same distro with some albums by right-leaning bands...

A.: Unfortunately it's often the case with distros and labels that distribute stuff regardless of its political affiliation. Even Austin Lunn of Panopticon complained about Pagan Flames (the label which released his "Collapse" and "Social Disservices" LPs) having NSBM in their distro, so things like these are just unavoidable.

Q.: Some bands on this blog have Burzum on their list on influences. Isn't Varg Vikernes a nazi?